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Clear acrylic sheet is especially coveted now as clear dividers are being installed at checkout counters, restaurant tables, assembly lines and many other spaces where people interact in public. According to the WSJ, a Dallas area school; district ordered 30,000 sheets from Plaskolite, whose experiencing a 50% increase in business that is directly related to the pandemic response…deliveries are now out an unprecedented five months!

Our industry mourns the passing of Mike Batky, 75, earlier this year. Mike spent 23 years at Almac/Laird Plastics and 7 years at AIN Plastics/ThyssenKrupp Materials NA. Most recently with Business Answers International and a good friend and colleague of ours.

Acrylic sheet is everywhere it seems. Almost universally, its recently being called Plexiglass by most of the pr eess.

Barriers between office desks, bathroom stall and sink separators, in restaurants separating booths, in nail salons, movie theaters, on airliners and of course at retail points of sale. The list of applications will be virtually endless.

Total Plastics (TPI) producing tens of thousands of PETG face shields per day, supplying hospitals nationally. They have already shipped over 3 million.

Continuing their Covid-19 response TPI is gearing up to produce acrylic protective barriers on a continuing basis to , retail stores, schools and corporate offices, according to Tom Garrett, Pres. TPI. The new normal is here!